Quotes About Good

Yudhishthira answers Yaksha's question - what is man? by saying, 'The repute of a good deed touches heaven and earth; one is called a man as long as his repute lasts.

Nichts, nichts in der Welt hat so unwiderstehliche Gewalt der Eroberung wie das Gute.

Guy: "Hey, isn't that Karl up there?" Mr. Kyu: "You know Marx? Very good." Guy: "A bit... Doesn't everybody?" Mr. Kyu: "Oh no, not many capitalists do." Guy: "Really.

Security is a precious asset. It should be a goal of everyone who genuinely wants to build a good society rather than one that facilitates the aggrandizement of a privileged elite who knowingly gain from the insecurities of others. Wanting others to have what you want takes courage. That is what basic income is about.

The good man. He is still enhancer, renouncer. In the time of detachment, in the time of the vivid heather and affectionate evil, in the time of oral grave grave legalities of hate - all real walks our prime registered reproach and seal. Our successful moral. The good man.

Hitherto we have believed that we were helped and comforted by others, that we received joy from outside circumstances and surroundings; but it is not so. All joy and strength and good spring up from a fountain within one's own being; and if we only knew this truth we should know that, because God in us is the fountain out of which springs all our good, nothing that anyone does or says, or fails to do or say, can take away our joy and good.

The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves and one another for the general Good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry.

any one of us can draw the bad card of an aggressive cancer. Good people—doing all the right things—still get sick. It's tempting to want to find something—or someone—to blame.

When I die I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever.... I do not believe in immortality, and have no desire for it.

Sometimes only evil could defeat another evil. Degrees

I feel calm around you, as if the sun is smiling down on me and the world has suddenly become a sweet, safe place to be. I feel good about life?about myself. And it's hard not to want to be near someone who, just by their very nature, makes you feel that way.

I learned the hard way. That having a good heart....is something people take advantage of. I believe that we all have value. And we should treat people with respect and value them as well. Sometimes people don't really know respect. I don't know why?? Maybe they were not taught. who knows...? But I treat people the way I want to be treated. We are all important.

If only my heart could be the reflection of your heart. I could see it sacrifices itself for the good of others.

God made food; the devil the cooks.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another s soul.

Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.

But the surest sign that his confession had been good and that he had had sincere sorrow for his sin was, he knew, the amendment of his life. —I have amended my life, have I not? he asked himself.

Most people have some purpose or other in their lives. Aristotle says that the end of every being is its greatest good. We all act in view of some good.

hell ultimately is separation from God—not only separation from all that is good but also integration with all that is evil. Hence

It's a great burden, being one of the good guys.

Thank you, but the South is a state of mind rather than a place. Much of it is good, but much of it dark, thanks to our replication of original sin in the form of the Middle Passage. John Calvin and Cornelius Jansen spat in the punch bowl as well.

Did you ever see a mob rush across town to do a good deed?

The party is a grand one and infinite in nature and like the music of the spheres thunderous in its presence, and I realized finally that the invitation to it comes with the sunrise and a clear eye and a good heart and the knowledge that we're already inside eternity and need not fear any longer.

Did you ever see a mob rush across town to do a good deed? Dave Robicheaux